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lpeatlaattoa at no. Detentl'utented Sept. 14. I000.

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To all tl'lmm it may concern:

lie it known that l (iroaoa W. DAVIS a citizen of the United btates,residing at C ticago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful improvements in Coats, ofwhich thefollowing is a specification.

The invention has for its objects the production of a seamless coat,that is, a coat .linin mt tern wherein the body portion is withoutlongitudinal seams; and the particular ob'ect of my invention is toroduee a seamess or one-piece overcoat with a tlaring skirt, such coatbeing commonly known as a box coat Another object. of m invention is toprovide a one-piece coat iniug so cut and applied as to utilize themaximum strength of the'liniug material. p

It has ieretofore been deemed impouible to construct a one-piece orseamless overcoat ot the box style because the cloth is not as wide asthe width of the skirt, and therefore it has been the invariablepractice, so far as I am aware, to lay out the garment by cutting onerttou, say one-ha t of a pattern, from theavtdth of the cloth. This hasre, sulted necessarily in the production of longitudinal seams and inconsiderable waste of the cloth. To obviate these objects, I lay i outthe cent by cuttin' a one-piece body pattern, with its top on bottomparallel to the sides of the bolt of cloth or by marking the outlines ofthe coat bod directly on the cloth. Then by cutting tie cloth on themarginal lines of the pattern, I roduce a ciiati] body of a single orintegra piece of 0t line for the sleeves and collar, which are searately cut.

lhe second object of my invention I accomplish by forming a lmin in asingle piece, so that the war threats run lon itudmally thereof, andthen attaching t he to the body in such manner that the temp. lofthelimng runs cross-wise of said llt y' Other objects will a ipcarthroughout the s -cilication, and are s'iown in the drawing, in which-Figure 1 shows a one-piece pattern laid upon the cloth; and Fig. 2 showsthe oneptecc lining attached to the coat body.

In carrying out my invention, I first prodnce or} ace upon the cloth 3 acoat body 9 as at having mrtions cut awaf lar. By

or the sleeves, am at (l for theco .the skirt is of considerablproviding thereon the necessary outcomparing the width of the bolt ofcloth with the width of'the lower edge 0! the skirt between the points iand 8, ll wtll be readily seen that the llared lower edge of greaterlength than the width of the clot t. For the ordinary sized ierson, abox coat with its lower edge 62 inc ms in length, which is the greatestwidth of a bolt of cloth, would be sullicicnt. llut where an extremestyle is desired for the mmlerate sized individual, and where theordinarfv style is desired for a large person. it has won immissible tocut a box coat from a single piece of material, for the reason that thedimensions of the cloth were insullicient to give the desired length atthe bottom of the coat to obtain the flared or box ell'ect. l have foundthat in mnstructin the body of the coat from a single piece 0 materialthat the lower edge of the skirt may be of any width desired, if outfrom the cloth in the manner shown in Fig. I. It has not been thoughtnecessary to show the manner of attaching the sleeves to the body of thecoat or other detail part. as the saute are well known in the art.

In Fig. 2 a new and novel improvement is shown in the lilting ti. Thebody lining is also constructed from a sin 'le piece of ma-, terial andis secured to the with the warp threads of the lining running crosswiseof the coat that is to say the length of the lining extends transverselyof the body of the coat am] is secured thereto at its ends and also atits top portion. It results from this that the warp threads which givestrength to the lining material are arranged parallel to the pullingstrains which are exerted by the wearer of the coat in the movements ofthe body and this arrangement .alao prevcnts'tho wrinkling or breakingof the lining to a large do rec making the lining much more dura le.This single piece lining may be out without waste by simply rcversmguhcposition of the pattern upon theanaterial. I am also able. )y placingthe limng in this manner, to form a. ltning consisting of a single pieceof material. In Fig. 2 the marginal vertical lines in which the liningterminates form the lapel of the coat.

[am aware that the nmin body portion of coats have heretofore beenconstructed from a single piece of nmtcrial. lmt l bclteve that I am thefirst to have ever constructed an overcoat or any other form of coatfrom a ly of the coat,

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- g moss v sing] a ieoe of material with the lower edge! constructedseamless as to its bod them of greater length than the width of andprovided with a body lin'n the bolt of cloth from which aaitl bodyporalao from asingle piece of clot'ia havin' its lb. tum of the coat wascut. I also believe that 1 lower margin longer than its upper an ar- 5 Iam the first to construct a lining for a rangul wlth the warp thread ofthe n|afrom a sin e piece with the warpterlal rnnnin cnlnswisr of thecoat hmly coat rut threads in the s com in the linin anal scoured ttenet t 't d hst running cums-wise of the l a uiy portion 0 atlfilttl'ilt'tl. l. sen m mmny I mzonm: w. mvls. "1 10 Having nowdescribed my invention, I Winn-m:

claim: C. C. Inx'rmcnu,

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